The waters around NYC were once packed with oysters, but over harvesting and our growing population—and its considerable sewage—helped make them "functionally extinct." But now the NYC Department of ...

Situated on its own private peninsula, Bush Cay, in a bright-white modern compound that hugs what is ostensibly a private beach (technically, all Jamaican beaches are public), this flashy adults-only, ...

Hempstead Town is using a $300,000 state grant to boost the amount of oysters off nearby Inwood Marina to clean well-traveled area waterways after decades of pollution. A project started several years ...